Laniakea

System information gadgets for HWiNFO

Laniakea is a collection of several system information gadgets:

  • Clock
  • CPU
  • GPU
  • Drive
  • Network

The CPU, GPU and drive gadgets require HWiNFO. The other two don't.

  • All windows can be resized freely while contained elements will scale automatically
  • No initial configuration necessary
  • All colors are customizable
  • All windows except the clock can contain additional custom sensor information from HWiNFO
Background:

I've been using HWiNFO together with Rainmeter and Modern Gadgets for a few years. As Modern Gadgets is no longer being maintained and the developer of HWiNFO now provides documentation for the shared memory interface, I started thinking about developing my own version of a system monitor. This is what i came up with. Initial development started at the end of August 2022 and finished at the end of January 2023. As coding is purely a hobby for me, this took a rather large amount of my spare time. It was a lot of fun though.

I tried to keep resource usage as low as reasonably possible. For example: Individual window elements are being redrawn only if the monitored value has changed since the last update.

System requirements:
  • Windows Vista or newer OS (32bit or 64bit)
  • HWiNFO32 or HWiNFO64
Notes:
  • Using the 32bit executable is generally recommended, even on a 64bit OS. The 64bit executable may use slightly more system resources.
Version history:

1.0a (05-Feb-2023)

  • Fixed a bug concerning the detection of the GPU power sensor
  • Improved detection of drive temperature sensor
  • Fixed tab order in network monitor settings

1.0 (28-Jan-2023)

  • Initial release

DOWNLOAD:

Laniakea 1.0a (32bit).7z
Laniakea 1.0a (32bit).7z.sha256

Laniakea 1.0a (64bit).7z
Laniakea 1.0a (64bit).7z.sha256

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